Where The Rich Live

The Daily Telegraph has released a map showing the average weekly salary across the UK. The Where the Highest Earners Live map uses novel information from the Office for National Statistics.

You tin laissez passer on the axe click on the map or larn inward an address to respect out the average weekly salary for whatsoever expanse inward the Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland). The UK's highest earners all alive London, inward Wandsworth, Westminster, in addition to Richmond upon Thames. The lowest weekly earners alive inward West Somerset.

The Telegraph has besides released a map, using the same ONS data, which shows where the richest people alive inward each local authorisation area. The Richest Places inward England in addition to Wales allows yous to run into where the highest earners are concentrated inward each area.

Not that The Telegraph is obsessed amongst wealth or anything merely the map does non exhibit where the poorest alive inward each local authority. In fact The Telegraph claim that the "map gives an indication of the places nearly probable to hold out striking difficult yesteryear a proposed mansion tax". This is of degree completely erroneous in addition to a blatant endeavour yesteryear the paper to essay out in addition to pigment a misleading film of how many people would hold out affected yesteryear the proposed policy.

For event inward London the map shows a large percent of Waltham Forest inward red. This would Pb yous to facial expression that the proposed mansion revenue enhancement would impact a large let out of people living inward this local authority. In fact the proposed revenue enhancement would impact no-one inward the borough. This is of degree truthful of nearly of the ruby areas shaded on the map.

Diamond Geezer has created a oestrus map of the let out of people who would hold out affected yesteryear the mansion revenue enhancement inward London. Using information from the final census he industrial plant life that inward London that less than 3% volition hold out affected yesteryear the tax. When yous create got into draw organisation human relationship that the highest earners alive inward London yous tin laissez passer on the axe assume that this figure is much lower exterior of London.